A new wine bar is coming to the northern edge of Chinatown to pour glasses of homemade wine as it joins the revival of a decades old tradition.

Less than a year after receiving its winemaking permit from the city, Angeleno Wine Company is set to open its tasting room on July 13 in a 1925 building at 1646 N. Spring St.

Using grapes harvested from northern Los Angeles County and produced onsite, the winery joins about a dozen other licensed wineries within the city limits, including the oldest and best known, San Antonio Winery, which is located less than a mile from Angeleno and has been producing wine at that location since 1917.

The July 13 grand opening party will include food trucks and music and of course wine, including new wines such as a SuperBloom red and white, and an Albariño.

After the 6 p.m. grand opening the winery will be open from noon to 8 p.m. Saturdays, noon to 6 p.m. Sundays and by appointment during the week.

While the new winery is surrounded by graffiti-covered buildings and gritty warehouses and a few trees that grow out of dirt patches on old sidewalks, the area was once part of wine country and covered in vineyards.

However, prohibition and urban growth helped to bring an end to the thriving wine business with only San Antonio surviving because of ties with the church that lead to an exclusive agreement with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to sell sacramental wine.

Which is why winemakers Jasper Dickson and Amy Luftig, owners of Angeleno Wine, wanted to help revive the tradition in the city.

But they’re not the first ones to do so.

Besides San Antonio Winery other recent ones, which operate mainly as tasting rooms, including the Pali Wine Company, also located in downtown in the nearby Arts District, and the Blending Lab, which runs a tasting room near The Grove while making its wine in the Santa Clarita area.

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